Birth Of America

[duncan]

Since Slitherine (wisely, I hope) denies us from playing Legion II (I definitely want to play this game), I've been searching for another game to pass the time...and then I found birth of america, by our beloved Phillipe Thibbaut (sp?), who gave us EU (the board game), but didn't hit the target with "Pax Romana" or "The Great Invasions". I own the latter and it has great ideas but flawed design, IMHO...

But P.T has lots of ideas and, far from surrendering to neo-capitalism, he has released Birth Of America, a wargaming game set in the Independence Wars and Anglo-french wars (around 1750-1780).

The game is available via digital download and CD. I've got mine for only 30 euros (eeer...17 Sterling Pounds? 35 $? Who knows...) and I have to say I'm enjoying a lot. It's simple to learn but hard to master, blah, blah, blah...it doesn't have resource management or empire-building, you only have to move your armies, watch for your suplies' line, weather, morale issues and all that...but it keeps you up until late at night...It's turn based a la Medieval: Total War (i.e., simultaneous, 1 turn= 1 month), combat is auto-resolved between turns and it is more or less fair, it has ambushes, trenched armies, historical leaders, sieges and all...boats too! Nothing is better than giving the french a surprise from Hudson River! It has three campaigns (up to 100 turns), ten or so short escenarios (from 4 turns to 12), pretty graphics/sprites, sort of good UI (but it takes a while to get it right!) and a horrible tutorial. It has a demo too and it is patched steadily (but i've had no problems at all, no CTD...like good ole Slitherine games)

More info in http://www.birth-of-america.com/, hope you'll find it entertaining.